AMAZING! Hillary Clinton’s State Department Refused To Add Boko Haram To “Foreign Terrorist Organization” List

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Earlier this week, the leader of Nigeria’s terrorist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, released a tape admitting his group had abducted the 223 Nigerian schoolgirls. While Hilary is calling the kidnappings “an act of terrorism“, we learn that the State Department under Hillary Clinton fought hard to keep the Islamic terrorist group off the official “foreign terrorist organization” list in 2011. 

This was  despite being urged by the Justice Department, CIA, FBI and lawmakers to add the group to the official list.

The State Department even refused to officially call them terrorists after the Boko Haram bombed the U.N. headquarters in Abuja.

Daily Beast reported:

On Wednesday, Clinton said that the abduction of the girls by Boko Haram was “abominable, it’s criminal, it’s an act of terrorism and it really merits the fullest response possible, first and foremost from the government of Nigeria.” Clinton said that as Secretary of State she had numerous meetings with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and had urged the Nigerian government to do more on counterterrorism.What Clinton didn’t mention was that her own State Department refused to place Boko Haram on the list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2011, after the group bombed the U.N. headquarters in Abuja. The refusal came despite the urging of the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, and over a dozen senators and congressmen.

“The one thing she could have done, the one tool she had at her disposal, she didn’t use. And nobody can say she wasn’t urged to do it. It’s gross hypocrisy,” said a former senior U.S. official who was involved in the debate. “The FBI, the CIA, and the Justice Department really wanted Boko Haram designated, they wanted the authorities that would provide to go after them, and they voiced that repeatedly to elected officials.”

In May 2012, then-Justice Department official Lisa Monaco (now at the White House) wrote to the State Department to urge Clinton to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist organization. The following month, Gen. Carter Ham, the chief of U.S. Africa Command, said that Boko Haram “are likely sharing funds, training, and explosive materials” with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. And yet, Hillary Clinton’s State Department still declined to place Boko Haram on its official terrorist roster.

Being placed on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations allows U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies to use certain tools and authorities, including several found in the Patriot Act. The designation makes it illegal for any U.S. entities to do business with the group in question. It cuts off access to the U.S. financial system for the organization and anyone associating with it. And the designation also serves to stigmatize and isolate foreign organizations by encouraging other nations to take similar measures.

Secretary of State John Kerry added Boko Haram to the State Department’s official list in November 2013.

 

 

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